ARPES study of doping dependence of the superconducting gap in Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$

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Abstract

High transition temperature superconductivity has been discovered recently in many doped iron pnictides which join the cuprates in the family of high-Tc superconductors. It is very important to understand the nature of the superconducting gap and its doping dependence, as in the case of the cuprates, in order to understand this new class of superconductors. A systematic angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study has been performed on the iron pnictide Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ at different K concentrations, to determine its doping dependence of the superconducting gap. We will report our ARPES results and their implications.

Authors

  • Y.-M. Xu

    • Boston College
    • Department of Physics, Boston College
  • M. Neupane

    • Department of Physics, Boston College
  • P. Richard

    • WPI Research Center, Advanced Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University
  • K. Nakayama

    • Department of Physics, Tohoku University
  • Y. Sekiba

    • Department of Physics, Tohoku University
  • T. Qian

    • WPI Research Center, Advanced Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University
  • S. Souma

    • WPI Research Center, Advanced Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University
  • T. Sato

    • Department of Physics, Tohoku University
  • T. Takahashi

    • Department of Physics, Tohoku University
  • H.-H. Wen

    • Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Z. Wang

    • Department of Physics, Boston College
  • Hong Ding

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, CAS